Details On Duncan Jones’ Next Sci-Fi Project ‘Mute’
Six weeks ago we reported that Duncan Jones, the director of indie sci-fi flick Moon, was set to make a Blade Runner style sci-fi mystery as his next film.
A few days ago we learned he had also signed on to helm a submarine survival film titled Escape From The Deep, leading to speculation that Escape may have slipped in ahead of his sci-fi project.
Now, in an interview with io9, Jones has reiterated that he still hopes to do the Blade Runner style film next, confirming also that the project will be titled Mute.
From io9:
I still want to do that film, and I’m still hoping to do it, and have it be the next film I do. It’s not Blade Runner 2. I have no claim on that at all. The only reason that I mention Blade Runner is because there’s something about that particular film, where they really created a believable and realistic living breathing futuristic world. For all of the other films that have tried to do that I don’t think anything has come as close to the way Blade Runner has to creating something believable.
We also asked him if he could clarify which of the two films was likely to be his next film.
“Nothing certain yet,” he replied. “I’m pushing for Mute, but a lot is in the hands of how Moon goes down. Escape [from the Deep]is a while away, I think.”
Whether it’s his next film or not, Jones wants every aspect of Mute to be as believable and character driven as possible.
From io9:
I think it’s really just a matter of coming up with believable humans, you know rounded people. People you actually believe exist…It’s a very human story, it’s about normal, normal people having to live in this future city.
Science fiction is more of a backdrop, in some ways, than you might expect. But I like that, because … if you allow [science fiction] to be in the backdrop and not be what it’s all about, then the humanity is what you’re really concentrating on and looking at. You see why people are the way they are, and how they’ve maintained their humanity in these science-fiction settings. Or the opposite, why their humanity starts to be eroded. When they started to lose their humanity because of the world that they live in, and that’s what this film is going to be about.
Read the full interview at i09.
Make sure you go and see Moon at the theater when it is released:
USA – June 12, 2009 (limited run in LA and NY)
UK – July 17, 2009
Australia – September 3, 2009
